PR: X11R6.8.2 Officially Released by X.Org Feb 10, 2005, 20 :30 UTC (0 Talkback[s]) (8862 reads)
The X.Org Foundation has announced the fourth release of the X Window System since the formation of the Foundation in January of 2004.
The new X.Org release, called X Window System Version 11, Release 6.8.2
(X11R6.8.2) builds on the work of X.org X11R6.8.0 and X11R6.8.1 released in
2004. X11R6.8.2 combines the latest developments from many people and
companies working with the X Window System and an open X.Org Foundation
Release Team. All Official X.Org Releases are available for download from
ftp://www.x.org/pub and at mirror-sites world-wide.
The X11R6.8.2 release is intended to be a stable bug fix release
("Maintenance update") for the X11R6.8.0 and X11R6.8.1 X11 releases of
the Xorg Foundation, containing bug fixes, security updates and a
small set of new features, which include the following:
ATI R100 video driver
ATI "radeon" video driver
ATI Rage128 video driver
CYGWIN infrastructure update
DMX Library updates
Intel i810 video driver
libXpm security update (CAN-2004-0914)
Mesa (OpenGL) update to release 6.2
Fixes to the pseudocolor emulation layer (currently only used by the Neomagic driver.)
"nv" (Nvidia) video driver
Postscript print driver
Xprint infrastructure update
Please refer to the X11R6.8.2 Release Notes at http://www.x.org for
further details. The full list of changes between the initial
X11R6.8.0 and this release can be found in the Changelog.
